Thorns FC: Memory Box 4 – Power of the Night

Under the lights but often struggling in the dark

Statutory Requirements

We’ve had a couple of “best of” sorts of posts in a row – kits, tifos – so I thought I’d add a third. It’s pretty straightforward. Who else gets a statue? If she doesn’t get immortalized in bronze at the corner of 18th and Morrison the year she retires, Christine Sinclair has my permission […]

Art Through the Ages

A Riveters tifo retrospective.

Thorns FC: Memory Box 3 – Fashonista!

Thorns dress for success!

Thorns FC: Memory Box 2 – The Loved Ones

The Loved Ones…

Thorns FC: Memory Box 1 – The Enigmas

Let’s talk about some favorite (and maybe not-so-favorite) Thorns..!

Thorns FC: Drafts and Deals, Part 1

While we’re waiting for the delayed season to start…let’s discuss the club’s offseason moves!

Thorns FC: In the Dead Time

Back when I was a broth of a boy – in the Eighties, for those of you who can’t imagine such a thing – I whiled away the time at soldiering. Or, at least, what we imagined was soldiering; the notion that you could spend a career commuting between CONUS and various unpaved portions of […]

Episode 32: It’s Getting Drafty in Here

With Richard Budweiser at the helm we discuss the draft, John relates the plot of the 2008 children’s film Bolt and Shannan shares a hot tip from a secret informant.

Thorns FC: Wild Card

In the old movie this is where the editor runs into the newsroom shouting “STOP THE PRESSES!!!” To me this is intriguing on a number of levels: First, because without Macario I don’t see the #1 pick on this draft being worth all that much. Certainly not worth a subsidized player. Certainly not worth a […]